Quotes About Empathy

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. (MLK, Jr., Riverside Church, New York City, April 4, 1964) (Note: 50 years ago)

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.

My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

Feel provides an important channel of information.

I feel the main advantage of being a singer is that you are providing happiness to others.

I want film stories to provoke a question in people about what's going on emotionally around them and empower them in some way or ask them about themselves.

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

I love to think on my feet, and I love to be able to feel from a close proximity how things are going.

Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

It's not easy trying to get into the psyche and behaviour patterns, which are far removed from one's own personality. Some intense characters linger long after it's over on screen.

Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.

Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.

Becoming the character you are playing might work for some, but for me, it doesn't. I always maintain a gap between myself and my character because if I will go so deep into it, it will get difficult for me to come back. You should work towards understanding the psyche of your character and then play it.

If I had a whole other life, I'd be a psychiatrist.

If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

I always wanted to be an archaeologist or a psychiatrist.

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

I'm good at fitting in, and I think I'm fairly perceptive about moods and psychic environments.